Word: blaschka
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...Leopold Blaschka, whose handiwork that orchid is, was a glassblower, highly skilled in contriving the intricate models then as now used in teaching the sciences. His particular field was marine invertebrates, but as a pastime he made flowers with which to decorate his home. Persuaded by Harvard University he turned his full attention to glass flowers, and produced that unique collection which is now in the University Museum...
...flowers arrived in Cambridge, completely rained by the Custom agents. Old Leopold is dead, but his son, specially trained in botany and Zoology, carries on his father's work. The Harvard collection has become famous, and is unrivalled because the University has a monopoly of the work of Rudolph Blaschka, the only living man who knows the secret of making the flowers. The shipment of flowers just received may be the last, for Rudolph is now old, and he has trained no successor. It would be too much to comment on the passing of such artistry...
...known possessions of the University, was begun in 1886, with the aid of a bequest from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ware, of Boston, and Miss. Mary LeeWare, as a memorial to Dr. C. E. Ware 1834. It is the product of the skill of two Swiss naturalists, the late Leopoid Blaschka and his son Rudolph, who have constructed all the models without assistance of any kind. The collection is the only one of its kind in the world...
Museums of Comparative Zoology and Botany, and the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants and Flowers, week-days, except Christmas and Fourth of July, from 9 o'clock to 4.30 o'clock; Sundays, from 1 o'clock to 4.30 o'clock...
...Museums of Comparative Zoology and Botany and the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants and Flowers, all week-days except holidays from 9 until 5 o'clock and on Sundays from 1 until 5 o'clock...